. Pine Hills bird notes . Hear me sing. Over on the Ridge the noisy flicker callsquit, quit, quit, quit, quit, quit; and a group ofgrackles in the tops of the seven pines awk-wardly crane and cramp their necks in the effortto gurgle up their clumsy spring notes. Thesegrackles winter South, but have now brokencamp and are distributing themselves throughthe Northern States. A month hence they willbe settled in small companies in favorite resorts,two of which are the pines on the ManningBoulevard and the group of spruce at the upperend of the park lake. It is yet early for bluebirds to settle to
. Pine Hills bird notes . Hear me sing. Over on the Ridge the noisy flicker callsquit, quit, quit, quit, quit, quit; and a group ofgrackles in the tops of the seven pines awk-wardly crane and cramp their necks in the effortto gurgle up their clumsy spring notes. Thesegrackles winter South, but have now brokencamp and are distributing themselves throughthe Northern States. A month hence they willbe settled in small companies in favorite resorts,two of which are the pines on the ManningBoulevard and the group of spruce at the upperend of the park lake. It is yet early for bluebirds to settle to house-keeping, but they are busy house are twenty-five or more houses put up onPine Hills for their use, with the prospect thatthey will all be occupied. Of course the everpresent English sparrows contest all rights but. their own, and have frequent scuffles with thenew comers, but nothing of a serious natureoccurs till the bluebirds are ready to occupy thehouses. The song, field, vesper and swamp sparrowsare jubilant, regardless of the changing weather,and their songs may be heard by listeners almostany hour of the day. With nesting this year thesongsparrow is at the front. March is early forplacing a nest out in the open field, and yet onMarch 27 a songsparrows nest with five eggswas seen by a member of the Pine Hills Audubonand Nature Class in the meadow at the foot ofOak Ridge. Courageous little bird, for frostand snow will chill the air for many a day yet. Coltsfoot, the earliest spring flower, wasbrought to the class last Saturday. On the claybank near the cycle path at the south end ofAllen street coltsfoot abounds. It is an inoffen-sive little plant that thrusts its dandelion-likeheads up through the heavy spring soil and opensa pretty golden disc to the sun long before itsleaves appear. It is
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